Improvement in clothes-line fasteners



J. P. BOESEN. Clothes-Line Fastener.

No. 210,658. Patented Dec. 10, i878.

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ATTORNEYS,

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UNITE STATES PATE JAMES P. BOESEN, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TOPAULINE BOESEN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-LINE FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,658, dated December10, 1878; application filed September 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. BoEsEN, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudsonand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-LineFastener, or; which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to improvements in that class of lii'ie-fastenings used in connection with a line run from the window of the house tov apulley fixed outside the house, and where the clothing is strung on-theline and drawn out by means of the pulley-connection.

The object of the intention is to enable the I clothing to he hung onthe line within the window, and thus avoid the danger and exposure ofleaning out of the window in order to get at the line.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my invention with theline in position for removing the clothes or hanging them on the line.Fig. 2 is adetail of the crane. Fig. 3 represents the invention with thecrane thrown out, and Fig. 4 is a detail of the manner of fastening thecrane within the window.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, the windowframe from which the line isstretched is designated by the letter A, and B represents the outsideobject to which the outer end of the line is attached. 0 is theclothes-line, and D is the crane, hinged at 0 and d to the windowframeA. At the post B is fixed to a ring: bolt driven therein a pulley, a,and the free end of the crane is provided with a similar pulley, I), andover these two pulleys is secured the endless clothes-line 0, so as tobe run freely. The horizontal arm of the crane' is provided at itspivoted end with an upright hook, f, and on the arm is a latch, a,running freely thereon. E represents the interior of the room from whichthe clothes are to be hung out.

The operation of my invention is as follows: When the clothes are to behung on the line the free end of the crane D is drawn into the room, andsecured by fastening the latch 6 around the inside of the window-frame,as represented in Figs. 1 and 4. The clothing is then hung on the line,each piece on that part of the line within the window and room, and aseach piece is placed on the line it 1s drawn out in the usual manner,leaving space for another piece, and so on until the line is full,

it being understood that in this kind of line only that part on one sidecan be filled with clothes, the other part being unoccupied, so as togive room to work the line back and forth through the pulleys. Thusunderstood, when the line is full it is hitched over the hook f, asshown in Fig. 3. The latch e is then released from the window and thecrane allowed to swing out from the room, the line being supported fromthe hook f to the pulley c on post B. If it is desired to throw thecrane out of the way of the window entirely, it is forced out andsecured by the latch a being hitched over the unoccupied part of therope, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 2 the rope 0 (indicated by dotted lines) is shown hitched overthe hook j, and the crane swung out to a position at right angles to thedirection of the line, and the manner of supporting the line to keep itfrom sagging too far with the weight of the clothes clearly indicated.

Of course, this device is principally useful and valuable where 'yardsand house-tops are not available to stretch the lines, but they have tobe run from windows to convenient postsor staples in neighboring walls.At present, where they have to be stretched from the outside of thewindow, the hanging out of the clothes is attended with considerabledanger and exposure.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to use a swinging crane in aline-fastener; but

hat I claim as new and of my invention In a clothes-line fastener, thecrane D, hinged at c d to a window-frame having up right hook f andpulley b, and provided with a running latch, e, in combination with apost, B, having ring-bolt and pulley a, as shown and described.

JAMES P. BOESEN.

Witnesses W. G. Down, 0. SnDGwIe-K.

